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Psalm 103:14
New International Version
for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.

New Living Translation
For he knows how weak we are; he remembers we are only dust.

English Standard Version
For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.

Berean Standard Bible
For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.

King James Bible
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

New King James Version
For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.

New American Standard Bible
For He Himself knows our form; He is mindful that we are nothing but dust.

NASB 1995
For He Himself knows our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust.

NASB 1977
For He Himself knows our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust.

Legacy Standard Bible
For He Himself knows our form; He remembers that we are but dust.

Amplified Bible
For He knows our [mortal] frame; He remembers that we are [merely] dust.

Christian Standard Bible
For he knows what we are made of, remembering that we are dust.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For He knows what we are made of, remembering that we are dust.

American Standard Version
For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because he knows our form; he remembers that we are dust.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For he knows our frame: remember that we are dust.

Contemporary English Version
because he knows we are made of dust.

Douay-Rheims Bible
for he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust:

English Revised Version
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He certainly knows what we are made of. He bears in mind that we are dust.

Good News Translation
He knows what we are made of; he remembers that we are dust.

International Standard Version
For he knows how we were formed, aware that we were made from dust.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.

Literal Standard Version
For He has known our frame, | Remembering that we [are] dust.

Majority Standard Bible
For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.

New American Bible
For he knows how we are formed, remembers that we are dust.

NET Bible
For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.

New Revised Standard Version
For he knows how we were made; he remembers that we are dust.

New Heart English Bible
For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

Webster's Bible Translation
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

World English Bible
For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

Young's Literal Translation
For He hath known our frame, Remembering that we are dust.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Bless the LORD, O My Soul
13As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him. 14For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust. 15As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;…

Cross References
Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground--because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return."

Psalm 39:4
"Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.

Psalm 78:39
He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

Psalm 136:23
He remembered us in our low estate His loving devotion endures forever.

Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 12:7
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Isaiah 29:16
You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "He did not make me"? Can the pottery say of the potter, "He has no understanding"?


Treasury of Scripture

For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.

he knoweth

Psalm 78:38,39
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath…

Psalm 89:47
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

we are dust

Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Job 7:5-7,21
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome…

Job 10:9
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

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Psalm 103
1. An exhortation to bless God for his mercy
5. And for the constancy thereof














(14) Frame.--Rather, fashioning; referring to Genesis 2:7, or possibly to the image so common in the prophecy of the potter's vessel.

Verse 14. - For he knoweth our frame; or, our formation (Kay) - the manner in which we were formed (see Genesis 2:7). He remembereth that we are dust (comp. Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3:19; Genesis 19:27; Job 34:15, etc.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

He
ה֖וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

knows
יָדַ֣ע (yā·ḏa‘)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

our frame;
יִצְרֵ֑נוּ (yiṣ·rê·nū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's 3336: A form, framing, purpose

He is mindful
זָ֝כ֗וּר (zā·ḵūr)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular
Strong's 2142: To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male

that
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

we
אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃ (’ă·nā·ḥə·nū)
Pronoun - first person common plural
Strong's 587: We

are dust.
עָפָ֥ר (‘ā·p̄ār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud


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